PASOS Events

The PASOS program, funded by the United Nations Democracy Fund, seeks to empower civil society organizations and to enhance public participation in public policy development in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

http://www.pasos.org News Source: PASOS Secretariat, Prague, Czech Republic PASOS international conference will focus on soft and hard power challenges to EU and US democracy and development agendas, Euro-Atlantic security, energy policy, and new forms of diplomacy to solve entrenched disputes. The conference will also host the announcement of the first-ever PASOS Think-Tank Award. Four new […]

Leading US experts on democracy assistance debated with Jacek Kucharczyk, Olga Shumylo and Jeff Lovitt, co-authors of the PASOS publication, Democracy’s New Champions. European Democracy Assistance after EU Enlargement, at a presentation hosted in Washington, D.C., by Tom Carothers, Vice President for Studies at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Leaders in the field of policy analysis and communications explored the challenges of communicating policy research in Central and Eastern Europe today and learned about new innovative approaches and concrete practices developed by think-tanks in the USA, Western Europe, and Central and Eastern Europe October 21, 2008, Hotel Pyramida, Prague.

The role of the EU Presidency in setting strategy and new approaches to strengthening democracy on the EU’s eastern borders will be the subject of the opening plenaries at the annual PASOS international think-tanks’ conference, which takes place at the Humboldt-Viadrina School of Governance/Berlin Civil Society Centre in Berlin on 1-3 November 2007.

The conference, entitled A Cross-Border Project Development meeting, is being held in Istanbul, Turkey, and commences on the evening of 18 October with a roundtable debate between policy centres from Turkey, the EU and Central Asia on the theme, Turkey as a Foreign Policy Partner for the EU and Central Asia.